Progressive European Party
The Progressive party’s housing policy
It has been reported that some conservative MP’s don’t like new social housing to be built because they think it will create more Labour voters. That is an inhuman point of view, or though it does have some logic to it if you care more about who is in power than the welfare of the citizens they are supposed to be representing. The New Labour governments of Blair and Brown built fewer council houses than the Thatcher Government and this was in a boom time when we could easily have afforded it. What excuses do they have? In today's Britain homeless people are sleeping in doorways, families with children are stuck in bed and breakfast hotels. Yet we are constantly reminded that we can achieve anything because we are the world's fifth-largest economy. If this situation is not ringing the alarm bells and showing that our political system is broken and not fit for purpose it is hard to imagine what else could.
The Progressive Party has a solution to the housing crisis, a solution that would house everyone in need from singles to large families in high quality social housing. And at the same time provide homes for all the first time buyers waiting to get on the housing ladder. This would be done without any cost to the taxpayer. How can we house everyone without it costing any money? When you drop the old ways and are no longer encumbered by party politics and pressure groups these things become possible.
(The full details of pEp housing policy is in section 6 of our manifesto).
There is also the not so small point that the government is at present spending £25 billion a year on housing benefits. To put this into context our net contribution to the European Union is only £8.6 billion a year. The Progressive party by providing housing for everyone would in the end also save the £25 billion that housing subsidies currently cost and that money can, in turn, be used in a more productive way. The savings are even greater than what is saved by ending housing benefits when you consider that the civil service machine administering housing benefit would also no longer be needed. Forget the politics of Left and Right become pragmatic, become Progressive
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